Drinking Moonshine

My wife surprised me last night with a bottle of Moonshine from Kings County Distillery here in Brooklyn. The thing is, I've never drank it before, and I feel silly even asking, but what is the best way to drink this? I'm mostly a vodka drinker, which I would have on the rocks, I prefer to keep it simple. The little bit I've read about moonshine says that drinking moonshine straight is a recipe for disaster.

sorry, but I have known real backwoods makers/sippers who would sorta look at one like "well, what kinda clueless douchebag do we have here?" if you didn't just drink it straight. sure gag, pound the table, all acceptable behavior. hell puke if you must, but a mixer? not a chance. ok, maybe if somebody's grandmother wanted her thimbleful with a little water.

Also, even illegal moonshine (unlike the legal version you bought that actually paid taxes) can be of great quality as well as aged. True Moonshine just means that it went under the tax and licensing radars.

First, let's get the definition straight. No matter what some of these products call themselves (and I may be guilty of this myself one day,) Moonshine means it's made and sold illegally. If it's legal, it ain't moonshine. ;-)>

That said, the product is an unaged whiskey. It can be drunk neat, on the rocks, or in a cocktail. They are an interesting distillery. The equipment they use is just a half dozen or so hobby distillers, run on hot plates. I had the exact same one which I used for prototypes at my first distillery, and I made some amazing product with these little five gallon stills. They are a legal and licensed distillery, but doing micro-batches. They are also outlandishly priced at $20 for 200 Ml. That's $100 a liter for unaged whiskey. My hat's off to them for getting that price.

I haven't tried it yet, but I have tried dozens of unaged whiskies, I judged them at competitions, some are good, some are bad, some are great.

I'll have some on the market hopefully by next fall. (Also some sugar wash "moonshine", which is a light white unaged rum, and the main style of "moonshine" made during Prohibition.)